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Show SHELLS STILL PERIL FRENCH Old Ammunition Blown Up by Fires in Area Devastated by Germans. Lao: i, France. Itesiderts of the devastated dev-astated districts of France are slill fleeing from bursts of shell and shrapnel. shrap-nel. The new menace is caused by small tires, which frequently set of! the shells that have been piled up. In the desolate fields thousands ol unexploded shells have been picket.' up by German prisoners, anu, though there are details hauling them away and exploding them in remote valleys every day, there are still long ranks of them everywhere. Sparks from locomotives and from small fires, where battlefield rubbish Is being burned, occasionally set fire to patches of dry weeds, and the Accidental Ac-cidental bursts are numerous. |